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  Quo Vadis?
Posted by: turkeydinner - 04-04-2018, 12:37 - Forum: Leicester City - Replies (2)

Couple of years ago Leicester City won the EPL , some seem to forget or it will never happen again(!)

Apparently Man Utd need another 4-5 players to win the title
Man City are that far ahead etc

Leicester simply won the title with a combined team and a style of play who gelled
Different era you may say but Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa both won the title among lot traditionally bigger and bigger spending clubs for the same reason and even did it on the European stage to follow

Guadiola and Man City gelled this season, he already has a super scorer and existing playmakers who can win games, he has spend considerable money on a backline which last season did not fit his tactical ideology, the full backs he uses now are much more mobile thus when they have the ball Citeh almost play 2-4-3-1

Two years down the line and Leics have already been consigned by the Football public to be below Man C, Man U, Chelsea, Liverpool, Arsenal, Tottenham and perhaps Everton
Is Eight place all the EPL winning team of two years ago aspire to?

Much of the spine of the team is still there only the losses of Kante and Drinkwater
Harry Maguire has been a fine player largely replacing the aging Wes Morgan
Ndidi whilst not the finished article has been a super defensive midfielder

Does Money talk so much that Leics cant be top four again and prove team/tactics over money?

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  Brighton v Huddersfield Town match thread
Posted by: Lord Snooty - 04-04-2018, 08:55 - Forum: Huddersfield Town - Replies (20)

Brighton & Hove Albion v Huddersfield Town
The Premier League
Saturday April 7th - 15:00 ko
at the American Express Community Stadium


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Huddersfield Town travel to the south coast this Saturday for another Premier League match, this time with Brighton & Hove Albion.
We go there without Elias Kachunga, who in only his second game back from a serious knee injury, has now got ankle ligament damage from a disgraceful assault by a Newcastle player and will now sit out the rest of the season. One more injury to add to a catalogue of injuries which, if we do go down, will certainly have had an effect on the season, but won't be used as an excuse.
Brighton meanwhile, will be without our old nemesis Anthony Knockaert, who is still suspended after his red card at Everton. But they do have another player available who has been a thorn in our side in the past, Leonardo Ulloa, who is on loan from Leicester but couldn't play in their last game, as it was against Leicester.



A brief history of Brighton & Hove Albion FC: They beat us to the League One title in 2011. Apart from that, they finished runners up in Division Two in 1979 and spent four years in English football's top flight. That culminated with relegation in the same season as they got to the FA Cup Final, which they lost to Man Utd in a replay after the famous "and Smith must score" miss by Gordon Smith in the last minute of extra time of the first match.
Those four years were the highlight of a very non eventful club history. The club almost went out of business and out of the league in the mid 90s. The directors sold off their Goldstone Ground as the team plummeted to the bottom of the 4th division. On the last day of the 1996/97 season, having clawed back a 13 point deficit, they needed a draw against Hereford Utd to stay up. They managed it, only just though with a late equaliser from Robbie Reinelt keeping them safe. Safe, but homeless.


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Goldstone Ground



Without a home ground to play on, they shared the Priestfield Stadium with Gillingham for three years, before moving back to Brighton to play at the delightful Withdean Stadium, which would become their temporary home for eleven years.
Then, after much fannying about with judicial reviews and incorrect planning and red tape running riot, they finally got the go ahead to build this new stadium and moved in in 2011.
Since then of course, they have gone from strength to strength. Having won promotion in their last season at the Withdean they started life at the Amex in the Championship. They reached the Play Offs in 2014, losing to Crystal Palace and again in 2016, losing to Sheffield Wednesday. But then last season they finally made it to the Premier League, finishing as runners up to Newcastle.




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Withdean Stadium


Head to Head

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Brighton lead in the overall head to head with 22 wins to Town's 18, with 15 draws.

We first met Brighton back in 1922 en route to winning the FA Cup, overcoming them 2-0 at Leeds Road in a replay after the first match had ended goalless.
The first league encounter didn't arrive until 1958 after Brighton had been promoted to Division 2. We beat them 3-2 at home but lost 0-2 away.
We never built up any kind of rivalry with them and it looked likely that we would be heading in opposite directions once more when in 2009 we beat them 7-1 at the Galpharm Stadium. They survived that season though and we didn't go up. The next season they not only survived but went up to the Championship as League 1 champions, despite us doing the double over them, famously winning the last ever match at the Withdean Stadium 3-2 with goals from Benik Afobe (2) and Danny Ward.
We met up again after our promotion in the following season and built up some sort of rivalry, no more so than last season when we pushed them all the way for automatic promotion. We lost 0-1 down at theirs, our first defeat of the season, but won a great match at the John Smith's in front of the Sky Sports cameras on a Thursday night by 3-1 with first half goals from Tommy Smith, Nahki Wells and Elias Kachunga. Tomer Hemed had earlier equalised after we took the lead. And this season we beat them again at home, this time with a Steve Mounie double.
Our record down at Brighton's new ground isn't right cracking however. In the five games we've played there, we haven't won any and have only twice come away with a point, in goalless draws in 2013/14 and 2014/15.



So what's happening at the Amex?  Managed still by Chris Hughton, the former Spurs player and Republic of Ireland international. He turned out almost 300 times for Spurs and gained 53 caps for Ireland before he moved on to West Ham and then Brentford.
When he finally hung up his boots he got a coaching job at Spurs and also became assistant manager of the Republic. But it was at Newcastle where he got his first proper manager's job and got them promoted back to the Premier league in his first season. Another crazy decision in the Newcastle life of chairman Mike Ashley though led him to sack Hughton in the following season with the side comfortably mid table.
He then went to Birmingham City, leading them in their Europa League campaign (they'd finished runners up in the League Cup), and led them to the Play Offs. Premier League Norwich came sniffing and he went there the following season, keeping them up with a victory on the last day. It wasn't good enough though and he was dismissed.
From there he ended up at Brighton and has had a pretty successful time down there.



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Club Connections: There were two Brighton players with Town connections at the start of the season. Play Off winning legend Izzy Brown went to the Amex on loan for the season from Chelsea, played against us, but later got injured and returned to Stamford Bridge.
Oliver Norwood left Town in 2014 to play for a bigger club. That bigger club being Reading. He did alright there, but before they could be good enough to reach the Play Offs they'd had to offload him to Brighton. He turned out on 33 occasions for the Seagulls in their promotion season, but Hughton obviously thought he was at best a Championship player and so was sent out on loan to Fulham for the duration.

There are others. Going back to when I were a lad, we had a left back called Chris Cattlin. He left for Coventry during my first season as a Town fan in 1968 and played at the top level for many years with them. Later, he joined Brighton, eventually becoming manager before retiring to run the Novelty Rock Emporium on Brighton sea front.

Much missed Radio Leeds co commentator Kieran O'Regan (he was so much better than Matt Glennon) started his footballing career at Brighton, turning out 86 times for them. He then moved on to Swindon before being signed by Eoin Hand for Town in 1988. he turned out 199 times for us then joined West Brom and then Halifax, who he later managed and captained their team that got promoted back into the Football League.

Joel Lynch became a fans' favourite at Town with his spectacular long range goals. He started out at Brighton, then following a few seasons at Nottingham Forest he came to Town and is now wasting his career away playing for Ian Holloway at QPR.

Can you think of any more?


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Recent form: Town are 16th in the Premier League with 31 points. Brighton are in 13th with 34 points.


Well people keep banging on about us not having scored for the last four matches, but nobody seems bothered that the Seagulls have also drawn a blank for the last three. Goalless draw anybody?


Last 6 matches:
Newcastle 1-0 Town
Town 0-2 Crystal Palace
Town 0-0 Swansea
Spurs 2-0 Town
WBA 1-2 Town (van La Parra, Mounie)
Town 0-2 Man Utd

Brighton 0-2 Leicester
Man Utd 2-0 Brighton (FA Cup)
Everton 2-0 Brighton
Brighton 2-1 Arsenal (Dunk, Murray)
Brighton 4-1 Swansea (Murray 2 (1 pen), Knockaert, Locadia)
Brighton 3-1 Coventry (FA Cup) (Locadia, Goldson, Ulloa)



Brighton's line up v Leicester:

1 Mathew Ryan - Australia's number 1
21 Ezequiel Schelotto - long haired Argie
22 Duffy - had a number 1 in 2008 with Mercy
5 Dunk - the Hob Nob of the defence
3 Kevin Philips-Bong - Slightly Silly Party (one for the Monty Python fans out there)
24 Davy Pröpper - midfielder signed from PSV in the summer
25 Jürgen Locadia - striker signed from PSV in the summer
13 Pascal Groß - ex Ingolstadt teammate of Kachunga and Quaner
7 Beram Kayal - Israeli international midfielder signed from Celtic
19 José Izquierdo - Colombian winger signed from Club Brugge in the summer
17 Glenn Murray - ex Carlisle, Stockport and Rochdale striker

Substitutes
2 Bruno - played by Sacha Baron Cohen
9 Sam Baldock - played for MK Dons against us in the Play Offs
10 Tomer Hemed - Israeli international striker
18 Connor Goldson - ex Shrewsbury and Cheltenham defender
20 Solly March - winger signed from Lewes
26 Tim Krul - reserve keeper spent most of his career at Newcastle
29 Markus Suttner - another Ingolstadt connection




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  That Davies' tackle?? Worth just a two game ban!?
Posted by: 0762 - 03-04-2018, 17:25 - Forum: Celtic - Replies (2)

Announced today by the SFA that the Ross County captain is suspended for only two matches - talk about 'losing all faith' in the ability of the SFA ref compliance officer to mete out proper justice and send out a strong message to any player who wants to play this kinda pre-meditated awful offence against any player, let alone Scott Broon. The punishment should have been a 5 or 6 match ban for a shocking challenge like that one.What a disgrace!

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  Prediction League Tables Week 29
Posted by: bomberbrown1968 - 03-04-2018, 14:08 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (17)

   

Hello everyone
Apologies for the delay in the results I didn't return from a few days away until last night,So just a quick write up then i will get the fixtures up later tonight   Thumb up  
So congratulations to DD who ends his miserable run to get back into the title race with a whooping 28 points,
Closely followed by BBB in 2nd spot who also had a great 26 points
In third was Joker with a nose bleed and 13 points, closely followed in 4th by St Charles with 11 backing up his good week last week,
In equal 5th was Derby and Zinman both with a moderate 8 Points (squeaky Bum time) For Zinman at the top
In 7th was Sanjay with 7 points then there's a big drop to 8th as the minus men kick in, Matt after his recent good run shudders to a halt with -1, World Class also after improving gets it wrong this time with -4, then Twerton suffers this week with -7 and 10th place,
Finally and sad to say Amelia got everything wrong apart from one game so not surprisingly finish bottom with a awful -10,
Cheers guys things looking mighty interesting going into the last 6 Weeks in both Divisions.
Beefy   Thumb up

   

All change at the top of the Premiership as a familiar face in the form of DD takes over top spot Thumb up . After being top dog for 17 weeks earlier in the season, he now sits in pole position for the title with, by my reckoning, just 6 weeks of the season left.

The lead though is only 3 points over Zinman, who drops a place to 2nd after 7 weeks at the top and while he’ll be going all out to finish the season strongly, there’s a dark horse galloping up on the rails who could be coming with a perfectly timed run, as BBB sits in 3rd ready to pounce on any mistakes by the top two. Only 9 points separate the top three and it’s looking like our title winner will come from one of them.

Back in 4th and now in sole possession of it is St Charles, who may now be too far away to mount a title challenge, likewise Sanjay, who slips from a shared position last week into 5th, but you never know Rolleyes .

Worldclass in 6th couldn’t repeat his recent surge of late suffering his first minus for a while and looks like he may have the flip flops out ready for the Summer, probably too far back to climb the table and comfortably clear of any relegation fears.

A similar story for Derby in 7th, who seems to have stopped his alarming slide down the table when he suffered from a mid-season slump after spending much of the early season in the higher reaches of the table.

Matt retains 8th more by others failings, than his own successes but it does mean that he manages to increase his advantage over his relegation rivals in the process.

Amelia, still seeking membership of the 100 correct prediction club, appears to be in free-fall Thumb down and the heady heights of the top 4 from earlier in the season now seem a distant memory, although the points she gained then may well be enough to keep her Premiership status intact as she holds the last position for safety in 9th.

Twerton couldn’t apply any pressure from 10th and only succeeded in putting himself closer to Joker in 11th, who needs to back up his decent score this week with a few more like it in the closing weeks to pull off “The Great Escape”

Bomber


   

Quite some variance in performances this week and I suspect that the promotion race is beginning to hot up with certain people struggling to cope with the pressure. Bomber, despite an irrational belief in Albion's competence, leads this week entirely as a result of being the only player to get the gamball score spot on but arguably this week's better performance came from Quantum. On Saturday night Quantum was looking at a potential record score - from the 9 matches, he had correctly predicted 8 results and, by playing his insurance on the only wrong prediction, had no negative points. Sadly Chelsea chose to roll over and so ruined a near perfect weekend for Quantum, but fortunately for him (and some of wish we'd done the same!) he chose not to gamble and so the damage was at least limited. Quantum was also the only player to get his bonus ball right, but that serves most of you right for trying to rely on Villa!
After a mid season lapse, 4eva appears to be coming back into form with 6 correct predictions including the gamball to give him 3rd place this week. Stairs also predicted a Spurs win to help his score to respectability.
And so to this week's strugglers. Beefy has obviously peaked too soon (apparently a common problem for him) and is crumbling under the pressure as we reach the final weeks of the season. I suspect he'll go into hiding now for a week or two, but at least he avoided a negative score.Vic correctly predicted a Sours win but chose not to play the gamball - sadly some of his more interesting predictions didn't quite come off. Snooty appears to be another one losing form at the wrong time with his second consecutive negative score - time for the head to rule the heart? Salop was another one predicting an Albion win and compounded his irrationality by playing his bonus  - I admire the optimism. Bottom this week is Baggieone - only 1 correct prediction to give him his worst score of the season and surely end his outside chance of promotion?

Zin

   

All of a sudden it looks like there might be TWO promotion places up for grabs as Snootys tremor at the top has the makings of turning into a full blown earthquake  Confused . The lead that stood at 38 points just four weeks ago is now down to a mere 4 as we enter the final six week run in.

Bomber, courtesy of nailing the week changing Gamball, was this weeks “glistening gazelle”  Smartass  majestically leaping two places into 2nd to apply some pressure to our long-time leader, and now holds that precious promotion by the skin of his teeth.

Just one point back in 3rd is 4eva who continued his recent improved form, the third Tottenham goal actually stopped him from hitting the summit again after holding top spot for so long not so long ago.

The chase for promotion doesn’t end there though, despite dropping two places into 4th, Beefy, suffering at the hands of the controversial Gamball, is only a further 5 points back. It now looks like perm any 2 from 4  as the top four are now separated by only 10 points.

BaggieOne suffered a nightmare week and lost valuable ground in 5th and possibly sits too far away from the top 4 unless he can muster a couple of spectacular weeks.

Stairs, up a place in 6th and Salop down a place in 7th experienced polar opposite weeks, with the former enjoying a 23 point swing to move ahead of his nearest rival by a solitary point.

Quantum retains 8th and should consider himself unlucky not to improve on that after having part of his excellent week only slightly foiled by Sunday’s game  Thumb up .

BaggieVicar, still holds up the rest of the league in 9th, and is still just shy of the 100 point mark, though only by a solitary point, if only that 8-8 had come in or if he’d braved the Gamball.

Bomber

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Rainbow Prediction League Week 30 !!!
Posted by: Beefy 1965 - 03-04-2018, 13:48 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (45)

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Scoring System

Bonus Ball =  Smartass  ................ Insurance ball =  Cry   .................. Gamball =  Exclamation

Incorrect Result = - 1 point
Incorrect Result (Insurance Ball) = 0
Incorrect Result (Bonus Ball) = - 2
Incorrect Result (Gamball) = - 4

Correct Result = + 2 points
Correct Result (Bonus Ball) = + 4
Correct Result (Gamball) = + 8
Correct Score = + 4 points
Correct Score (Bonus Ball) = + 8
Correct Score (Gamball) = + 16

* You must use the Gamball on the Game chosen , This game will be marked with ** in front of the chosen game, highlighted Red, and have the smiley  Exclamation   at the end of it to avoid any confusion. You DO NOT have to play the Gamball , Your score will then be marked as normal.
If anybody plays the wrong ball on the Gamball game, this ball will be treated as though you have used it and therefore scored as such. Rolleyes

If you do not predict,...........
If in your league everyone scores above zero you will receive Zero points,
However if in your league the person with the lowest score is below Zero (eg -4) you will score -5 and receive your first strike, Remember 3 strikes and you're out.

All scores must be in before MIDDAY SATURDAY,(For The Early Kick Off If Applicable) If the early kick off is missed the rest of your predictions must reach us by 2.45pm or none will be counted.



* NEW & UPDATED 2017/18 PARTICIPANTS,

Premiership
                             
1/Zinman
2/ST Charles Owl
3/Derby                            
4/WorldClass
5/Sanjay
6/Twerton                                                      
7/DD
8/Amelia
9/BBB 
10/MattWBA
11/ Joker                   
                           
Championship

1/Beefy
2/BaggieVicar
3/Stairs
4/Quantum
5/Baggieone
6/4eva
7/Bomber                          
8/Salop
9/Snooty
10/Bournemouth                           
                             
I'm almost 100% sure Myself & the Scorers get the scores added up correctly, From time to time over the season we may get now and again get this wrong, SO IN THE EVENT OF ANY POINTS DISCREPANCIES can i ask all you guys to check your predictions and if you feel they are incorrect in anyway contact me Via PM within a week of the TABLES & SCORES being presented and they will be corrected the following week.
Anything later unless it is a Major error will NOT be corrected. It is as much your responsibility to check your scores as much as it is ours to try and score them correctly.
Beefy (Y)


Saturday 7th April

1/ Everton v Liverpool 12:30pm K/O
2/ Bournemouth v Crystal Palace
3/ Brighton v Huddersfield
4/ Leicester v Newcastle
5/ Watford v Burnley
6/ WBA v Swansea
7/ Norwich v Aston Villa 12:30 K/O
8/ **Sheff Wed v Fulham   Angry

Sunday 8th April

9/ Chelsea V West Ham
10/ Lincoln v Shrewsbury.  .  EFL CUP FINAL

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  HTAFC Prediction League 2017/18 Matchday 36
Posted by: Lord Snooty - 03-04-2018, 07:58 - Forum: Huddersfield Town - Replies (19)

2 points for a correct result
4 points for a correct score
2 points for each correct scorer
Correct joker doubles your score   Laugh     
Wrong joker result gives you minus 2
Correct Random Badger gives you 2 points Badger

The random badger Badger is used for any random prediction used once in each matchday sequence. For instance, a scorer at a particular match, the number of red cards in the matches or yellow cards or own goals or owt you want really within reason, I do need to be able to check whether it's correct or not. Please don't put stuff like....."Commentator says...."  Rolleyes
The joker  Laugh is played for one match in each sequence and if correct you get double points. So if you've predicted 1-0 and it finishes 2-0, you get 4 pts, but if you've predicted 2-0, that's 8 pts. But if you get it wrong, it's minus 2.
Jokers and badgers are optional. You don't have to play one if you don't want.


Cup games:
In the event of a draw, it's half the points if you've predicted a draw when it gets to 90 mins and the full points if it's still a draw after extra time. Half the points will be awarded for correctly predicting the winner of the match if it goes to penalties.

Random score generator: I will be using the random score generator again for those who miss predicting, so we shouldn't get some people too far behind that after missing a couple of weeks they lose all interest, because I know it's not easy getting on here every week.
To be fair to everybody, this is going to be like, say if three people in one week miss their predictions, the first one in the table will be given all 0-0, the second one down the line will get 1-0 and the third will get 0-1 and so on, like if there's four missing the 4th will get 1-1, then 5th 2-1, 6th 1-2. and if there are so many missing, might as well pack in. Wink
And if you miss two weeks on the trot, I'll stop until you come back on again. Not doing it for half a season like I did last year.  Rolleyes

Saturday 7th April:
Brighton v Town
Town scorers:
Brighton scorers:

Everton v Liverpool (12:30)
AFC Bournemouth v Crystal Palace
Leicester City v Newcastle United
Stoke City v Tottenham Hotspur
Watford v Burnley
West Bromwich Albion v Swansea City
Manchester City v Manchester United (17:30)

Sunday 8th April:
Arsenal v Southampton (14:15)
Chelsea v West Ham United (16:30)

Bonus matches:
Saturday:
Championship:

Barnsley v Sheffield United (12:15)

Sunday:
Checkatrade Trophy Final:

Lincoln City v Shrewsbury Town (15:00)

Tuesday:
Champions League Q/F 2nd leg:

Manchester City v Liverpool (agg 0-3)


Table after Matchday 35:
Terrier1987cas = 860 pts
JUSTASILLYOLDGIT = 838 pts
neonfoxinthebox = 811 pts
jjamez = 786 pts
themaclad = 784 pts
SHEP_HTAFC = 775 pts
St Charles Owl = 761 pts
Lord Snooty = 751 pts
theo_luddite = 691 pts
ritchiebaby = 678 pts
Amelia Chaffinch = 615 pts
terrier1973 = 98 pts
Beefy 1965 = 6 pts

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Exclamation Pardew's treatment of the Young Players ...!!
Posted by: Beefy 1965 - 03-04-2018, 01:00 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (1)

Regarding a Post from Josh on Pardew's sacking I have pulled out some Points about the treatment of Players including the young guys,
I didn't read it Properly to start with , then had to read it again to make sure I wasn't seeing things,
What a disgrace of a manager this guy has proven to be , and now as Matt Wilson at the E&S has released these things from the dressing room I'm shocked and horrified by Alan Pardew,
I suppose If Matt had let us know what had been said earlier he wouldn't have been "Privy" to other things let alone a ban from the Press room .....

I have highlighted the things about Field & Burke in Particular Thumb up

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Alan Pardew is destined to go down as one of the worst managers in Albion’s history, if not the worst.

His record of three wins in 21 games leaves him with the joint-lowest win percentage alongside Nobby Stiles. It’s even worse than Pep Mel’s three in 17.

But two of Pardew’s wins came in the FA Cup, and one of those was against a team in the fourth tier. Stiles picked up more draws too.

The results speak for themselves. Pardew has taken the club from just above the relegation zone to adrift at the bottom of the table, 10 points from safety.

But his disastrous four-month tenure will be remembered for far more than just the defeats.

Off-field controversies and high-profile fall-outs with senior players lost him respect in the dressing room.

Pardew may have been a great PR man in the press room, where he said all the right things, particularly early on, but it masked his deficiencies in the dugout.

He was obsessed with being everything Tony Pulis was not, because he thought that was what the fans wanted, and it proved to be his downfall.

There was an early warning sign when he played three strikers in his first game in charge, not because it was tactically the right thing to do against Crystal Palace, but because he wanted to make a ‘little bit of a statement’.

He persisted with two strikers after that, even for games when it left the team overrun in midfield.

It wasn’t until Chris Brunt’s furious rant in the dressing room after the home defeat to Huddersfield that he realised he needed to adapt.

The way he treated young players like Sam Field and Oliver Burke was borderline disgraceful.

Field was playing well when he arrived, and had just scored against Newcastle, but he shunted the young fan favourite out to left wing at Swansea, his second game in charge, in order to manufacture his removal from the side.

The teenager was hooked at half-time and wasn’t seen again until a trip to champions-in-waiting Manchester City, where he was made a sacrificial lamb.

Before the game, Pardew asked Field over and over again if he was ‘s***ing himself’ in front of the rest of the squad. If this was supposed to be a motivational tool, it was grossly misjudged.

Burke, too, was publicly shamed for crossing the ball into the box against West Ham in injury time with the scores level, just days after Pardew had urged his team to take more risks in order to win games.

The Hammers went up the other end and scored, but it was not the rest of team’s fault, who let the hosts sweep through them with ease, it was Burke’s.

His mistreatment of the youngsters didn’t go down well with the rest of the squad.

Those senior professionals Pardew put all his trust in, repaid him by questioning his authority.

Barcelona was the nadir. Not only was it booked because Pardew expected the team to lose to Liverpool in the FA Cup, he then decided to go through with it even though Albion only had four full days in between games.

Taxi-gate is destined to go down in Albion folklore, and the players deserve to shoulder a lot of the blame for this season, but those early-morning actions show exactly the sort of atmosphere Pardew had created at the club.

Afterwards, the head coach claimed they broke a 12am curfew, but there has been some suggestion that no such curfew was ever in place.

The night before, Pardew had lost his wallet, phone, and jacket on an evening out.

Albion trained for three hours in total. It was a booze cruise intended to build morale, but it turned into a nightmare.

Pardew’s reaction was unsatisfactory. By keeping Jonny Evans and Gareth Barry in the team for the FA Cup game against Southampton days later, he proved himself to be a spineless leader.

He had no control of his squad, even then, and should have been sacked after that ill-advised trip.

Fans started to see through the PR which had initially won them round, and players too began to openly criticise him.

Eyewitnesses claim Grzegorz Krychowiak told him to ‘f*** off’ when Pardew hooked him during the home match with Leicester.

The Pole, who had played quite well in the first half, hasn’t been seen since.

On Saturday, when Pardew changed formation several times in a disastrous first half, his orders were received with confused looks by those on the pitch.

Two board members have already lost their jobs partly because he was employed, and now Pardew has finally left.

The smooth operator who took Albion on a rough ride, he’s been a dead man walking for some weeks now.

Hopefully it will bring about a positive finish to a poisonous season, as fans rally around Darren Moore for the final six games.

Pardew, meanwhile, will struggle to get another job in the top tier after this. And he is surely destined to go down as one of Albion’s worst ever managers.

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Well no wonder we are not getting results , the players hated him they rebelled against him and when this happens there is only one way a club is going,
Yet us the fans have had to suffer,
Thanks for nothing Mr Pardew the doors that way, I hope you haven't shattered our Young Players confidence to much, you have hurt the club enough already Angry


https://www.expressandstar.com/sport/foo...CbBYsLw.99


Also given 500k payoff
Better than the £ 2 million that was initially banded about , however giving someone Half a million for abject Failure beggars belief !!!

https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football...ier-League

Also if you want to put a face to a name here's Matt Wilson on Pardew's tenure,
A great 10 Minute listen when you get time Thumb up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_77ke8gl...tion=share

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  Rafa
Posted by: turkeydinner - 02-04-2018, 19:23 - Forum: Newcastle United - No Replies

That dour Iberian bloke who is tactically good but you worry when he has a chequebook

Good on him for turning it round, Xmas time they looked destined for the trapdoor, yet another Mike Ashley saga and in need of at least 5 real Premiership class signings which was never going to happen

Since then Dwight Gayle has scored enough to be touted for England, Diame has somehow become a decent number ten, Lascelles the best uncapped player in the Country and Captain courageous, Kenedy is now apparently worth 15M and Matt Ritchie isnt bad for a Scots bloke!

Well done Rafa!

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  Hibs v Hamilton Accies, Tues 3 April, KO 7.45pm
Posted by: 0762 - 02-04-2018, 14:46 - Forum: Hibernian - Replies (6)

Well what an opportunity to 'close the gap' on Rangers and the Dons to 1 pt but it is against a bogey team TBF. However, we have a Hibs team that is very capable of burying any kinda bogey esp v a side that has only picked up one win in 8 matches although I thought they played well v an in form Killie side - something for Lenny to note! We also have a lotta players who will be unaware of any kinda bogey v this team. So c'mon Hibs, time to excel and chase Rangers and the Dons!!

GGTTH

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Exclamation Pardew has left the building !!!
Posted by: Beefy 1965 - 02-04-2018, 12:40 - Forum: West Bromwich Albion - Replies (27)

Thank the lord
Happy Easter Thumb up

Breaking news - Alan Pardew and John Carver have left #wba by mutual consent. Darren Moore takes charge of the team. More to follow.

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